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Terminated in academic year 2017/2018

Monitoring Systems

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0397/01
Abbreviation MS
Course title Monitoring Systems
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. The inputs of pollutants into individual components of the environment, transport, environment and its influence, transform pollutants.
2. Impact of pollutants on living organisms and the mechanisms of these effects. Options limit the input of pollutants into the environment and their elimination from the environment.
3. Global Monitoring - principles, methods and systems.
4. Remote survey - basics and concepts.
5. Remote sensing of the environment.
6. Global monitoring of the atmosphere,
7. Global Monitoring hydrosphere
8. Global monitoring of vegetation, residential agglomerations.
9. Global monitoring for the environment and health.
10. Global monitoring - natural disaster - prevention (floods, tropical cyclones, tsunamis, seismic and volcanic
activity, desertification, deforestation, fires, droughts, epidemics).
11. Global monitoring for the environment and safety.
12. GMES - Global Monitoring for Environment and Security.
13. ENVIS information service on environment and others.
14 Legislature.

Literature

SPELLMAN, Frank R. Handbook of environmental engineering. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. ISBN 9781498708616 .
The Earth Observer (EOS Projects Science Office, NASA Godard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland).
PALMERI, Luca., Alberto BARAUSSE a Sven Erik JØRGENSEN. Ecological processes handbook. Boca Raton: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 2014.
ACEVEDO, Miguel F. Real-Time Environmental Monitoring: Sensors and Systems. 1. CRC Press, 2017. ISBN 9781138856899 .

Advised literature

Journals, e.g.: Earth System Monitoring (U. S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration).
BARNSLEY, Michael J. Environmental modeling: a practical introduction. Boca Raton: CRC, c2007. ISBN 9780415300544 .
OTT, Wayne. Environmental statistics and data analysis. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, c1995. ISBN 9780873718486 .
LITTLE, Keith W. Environmental fate and transport analysis with compartment modeling. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, c2012. ISBN 9781439887967 .


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